drought

Since 2021 Flagstaff photographer Dawn Kish has been documenting the reemerging Glen Canyon as the water levels at Lake Powell have dropped. She was inspired by Tad Nichols who photographed the canyon in the 1950s before it was dammed.

A group of nonprofits is calling for reductions to water demand, changes at Glen Canyon Dam and more transparent negotiations.

Home gardeners and landscapers in the Southwest and beyond are turning more to collected rainwater amid worsening drought and rising temperatures fueled by global warming.

Low water levels brought on by years of drought have revealed a submerged pickup truck containing human remains at Lake Powell near the Arizona-Utah border.

A group of environmental advocates sent a petition to the federal government with a simple, seemingly obvious message: Ensure that water from the Colorado River is only being delivered for reasonable and beneficial uses.

Two environmental groups worry that as drought causes Lake Powell's levels to drop infrastructure at Glen Canyon Dam could threaten water deliveries downstream.

New data from the Bureau of Reclamation puts the river and its reservoirs in formal shortage conditions. Policymakers are stuck on ways to fix that in the years to come.

Researchers found massive depletion of the region's groundwater, adding more stress to the drought-stricken Colorado River.

The authors of a new memo say that states need to take shared water cutbacks to manage the Colorado River going forward.

Snowpack was nearly nonexistent in parts of Arizona and across the U.S. this winter, and vegetation remains tinder dry — all ingredients for elevated wildfire risks.